News Roundup - Vancouver Maps, ESRI FedUC, FOSS Pirates

First up in the news this month is maps of Vancouver and the winter Olympics. Google updated their 3D imagery for the Olympics, and you can get a good tour using this KML file. How do you get street view on the slopes yo

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Using @font-face For Better Typography

I’ve been on a big web design kick lately, so I thought I’d do a quick post on using @font-face for custom typography on your web page. @font-face has been around since CSS2, and the first browser to take advantage of it

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Make Smarter - GWS, Motivating Workers, and Real Time Disaster Mapping

There are slim pickings in the make smarter department this past month, but there were a few things that jumped out at me. First, via Vector One, Cynthia Dietz, Map Librarian at the University of Stony Brook NY, wronte a

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Augmented Reality Maps (Bing)

Here’s the TED talk on upcoming Bing map features that has been in the news lately. In a nutshell, MS Worldwide Telescope and Flicker geotagged image integration with a demo of a live video overlay. It’s an impressive de

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Amazing Sand Painting

Some things are so amazing, they just have to be shared. Sand painting over a light box by Kseniya Simonova, who won Ukraine’s version of “America’s Got Talent.” It’s an interpretation of Germany’s invasion and occupatio

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Flash Takes It in the Teeth

It’s been a bad couple of weeks for Flash. First you had some quotes from Steve Jobs of this ilk: Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it's because of Flash. No

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How I Made the Cloud Thing

I’ve already been asked several times how I did the floating cloud bit in the header, so here it goes. Fair warning: if you were expecting some miraculous bit of coding here you’re going to be sorely disappointed. First,

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News Roundup - Geodesign, ArcGIS 9.4 Goes to 10, Haiti Disaster Response

What follows is notable news and happenings that I want to purge from my bookmarks folder. It will be a combination of things you already know spiced with things you probably won’t care about. I apologize in advance. Fir

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TED Talk: Geomedicine

TED Talks has a good presentation by Bill Davenhall titled Your health depends on where you live. It’s an interesting talk on the new science of geomedicine (so new I couldn’t find geomedicine on Wikipedia). This must be

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Internet Explorer Aurora Exploit in the Wild

Score! I’m happy to note that according to Google Analytics only 28% of you are using Internet Explorer. My hat’s off to 72% of you. If you are in that other 28%, however, unless you like your personal data compromised

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